Sam Allardyce was blowing bubbles of joy as he celebrated his first victory as West Ham boss, but there was a sense of relief at the final whistle after the Hammers survived …
Posted on 17 August 2011.
Sam Allardyce was blowing bubbles of joy as he celebrated his first victory as West Ham boss, but there was a sense of relief at the final whistle after the Hammers survived …
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Posted on 17 August 2011.
We’re winning away, We’re winning away, How shit must you be? We’re winning away! It may be to damn them with faint praise , but West Ham finally look as though they have…
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Posted on 07 August 2011.
Of all the places in England, Canary Wharf is perhaps the last one you might expect Sam Allardyce, “Big Sam” himself, to have made his home, three months shy of his 57th birthday. He loves…
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Posted on 04 August 2011.
A good speech is a wonderful thing. It has the capacity to inspire, to lift your spirits, to make your soul soar above the mundane minutae that obfuscates everyday existence. Unfortunately, noted Churchill, there…
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Posted on 31 July 2011.
Big Sam strolled to the dug-out for West Ham’s pre-season friendly at Dagenham & Redbridge last week like Dean Martin walking on to a stage in Las Vegas – only with a …
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Posted on 14 July 2011.
There is something almost Riefenstahlian about the official site’s daily descriptions of the squad’s pre-season fitness regime; the luxuriating in the mundane minutiae of each training drill and the fetishistic depictions of lythe young bodies in the throws of physical exertion. So it …
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Posted on 07 July 2011.
We’ve had Fletcher and Mackay and now West Ham are looking to add Baraclough to their growing list of Slade Prison namesakes. The club are reportedly close to appointing former Scunthorpe boss Ian Baraclough to their coaching staff, according to several sources . Sam Allardyce…
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Posted on 07 July 2011.
You see the truth is like lightning, it always follows the line of least resistance. So, for what we do, the trick is simple. All we have to do is find the line and then follow it back up. And, whatever it is, it’s all going to be …
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Posted on 05 July 2011.
Ministers are said to be closely monitoring allegations of inappropriate payments made by West Ham to a director of the Olympic Park Legacy Company, after the bitter public row over the future of the Olympic Stadium escalated yesterday. The Government is alarmed by revelations, first exposed …
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Posted on 03 July 2011.
West Ham United plan to sue the Sunday Times and Tottenham over allegations of corruption during their successful bid to take over the Olympic stadium. The club were awarded the right to move to the new stadium after the 2012 games…
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Posted on 03 July 2011.
For years there’s been peace – everyone to his own patch. We’ve all had it sweet. I’ve done every single one of you favours in the past – I’ve put money in all your pockets. I’ve treated you well, even when you was out of…
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Posted on 01 July 2011.
It was full daylight at 7.40 this very morning in 1908 when an enormous pale blue fireball trailed by a 500-mile tail of bright light, shimmering, multicoloured bands hurtled across the Siberian sky and consumed itself in the greatest cosmic explosion in the history of civilisation. This …
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Posted on 28 June 2011.
This social media culture is wonderful. Twitter, for instance, brings friends closer , it’s immediate, settles differences and it throws new people together. It can, writes Chris Lepkowski, be amazingly funny when people start to filter home from nights out. Yet, …
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Posted on 27 June 2011.
Sam Allardyce has
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Posted on 25 June 2011.
My name is Sam Allardycias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair! …and for my next trick FC Basel will take Radoslav Kovac from this club and actually pay money for the privilege. You read that correctly. Radoslav Kovac is off to Switzerland and…
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Posted on 24 June 2011.
West Ham have moved a stage closer to occupying the Olympic Stadium after a high court judge rejected applications from Tottenham Hotspur and Leyton Orient to challenge the decision to select West Ham as the preferred bidder for the stadium after the 2012 Games. Hotspurned and …
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